Tsukiji-jishi Festival

made my way out to Tsukiji to check out the lion head festival. saw some lamps:


a couple shots of Namiyoke-Inari Shrine:



festival dog!



Festival food!




festival games!




taking a much needed break:


and on to the lion heads! these were all different. there were five pairs of shishi-gashira:




this is a pair of kin-shishi:



this is the biggest one. they had a blessing ceremony for it and the people:


th priests offer big ass rice cakes:


prayers are conducted:



this is the ojishi (male lion head) weighing about 1 ton:


this is the mejishi (female lion head) weighing about 700 kg:


the band:



i see ass cheeks:



and the parade continues:



there were tons of people out here carrying that big ol' lion head throughout the streets:




festival season rocks!